The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock ePub Download

July 5, 2022 Fiction

Download The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray Pollock ePub novel free. “The Devil All the Time” is a beautifully-written, captivating book about a number of mostly poverty-stricken rural characters, some of whom are down on their luck and others of whom are simply bad to the bone.

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“The Devil All the Time” is a fantastic book filled with killers, corruption, and people making poor choices and how their stories intersect. Donald Ray Pollock is the author of this awesome and beautiful novel. A writer friend recommended The Devil All the Time as a compelling example of a novel that reveals the dichotomy of the human spirit. This compelling piece of fiction, written with a deft hand, takes the cake for disturbing and depraved. Unwavering in his delivery, Donald Ray Pollock gives us a peek at the world, through the eyes of some gnarly and grotesque individuals. What stands out is the casual ease in which the violence and carnage is served up, sans the antics that reek of shock value, making this deliciously dark plot palatable in some strange and unnerving way. That’s not to say the reality these people call life is easy to choke down, especially for those of us that have impulse control and a moral compass; so prepare you. Sometimes their decisions are born out of desperation and other times its pure evil at the helm, or the devil all the time, if you will.

Most disturbing of all is the twisted rationalization that tends to happen within the mind—the justification that this acts, whatever it might be, is the only way to feel a connection to their maker. “It’s hard to live a good life. It seems like the devil doesn’t ever let up.” There’s the husband with the makeshift altar, deep in the woods, where blood is spilt in the name of sacrifice. It’s the only way this devoted husband can see to save his wife from the painful end she’s staring down. Then there’s the husband and wife that spend their ‘vacations’ trolling the highway for ‘models’. She’s the bait for the next man deemed lucky enough to sate the disgusting photographer and his relentless quest for the perfect picture. There’s a host of death, destruction and evil deeds connecting two small towns in Ohio and West Virginia, and the way the author pieces the multiple story-lines together is shocking in all its perfection. Some might even say fitting, for this dangerously dark cast. Filled with realistic monsters and grotesques The Devil All the Time is often repulsive but always readable.